diff --git a/.github/workflows/update_NDM-v20.yml b/.github/workflows/update_NDM-v20.yml
index 064b12260e..e648482c7b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update_NDM-v20.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update_NDM-v20.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ jobs:
     environment:
       name: VLAB
     steps:
+      # Install svn since it is no longer included by default in ubuntu-latest (ubuntu-24.04 image)
+      - name: Install svn package
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install subversion
       # Checkout this repo
       # this gets the latest code (and is run on the default branch)
       - name: Checkout awips2